Garbage management to be on the top priority list on the recently-elected mayors of Dhaka north and south city corporations who have announced to make Dhaka a clean place in the next six months.

In the recent #ChooseBeautiful campaign, Dove and The Daily Star ask some inspiring women of Bangladesh to share their opinion on the perception of beauty.

Bhashantek slum residents are being deprived of the facilities as well as their fundamental rights, despite paying five times higher than the other Dhaka city dwellers pay for getting minimum facilities of sanitation and waste management.

Leaders and activists of different socio-political organisations besiege the office of Dhaka University Vice Chancellor protesting the authorities’ dillydallying role to punish the culprits involved in sexual assault against women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations.

Woman are subjected to sexual harassment daily.They tell stories of the everyday harassment they face on the streets, in public places and at work regardless of age or class.

Employees at different hotels and restaurants in Pabna are forced to work 12 to 15 hours a day. And despite this long hours of work, they are poorly paid.

Lychee farmers and traders in Dinajpur expect a bumper harvest of lychee this year. However, they are worried about incurring loss due to the present political unrest in the country.

In Rampura slum, the dwellers are not aware even after a recent disaster. It is the area, where a two-storey tin structure housing around 20 families, collapsed into a marshland on April 15, killing 12 people.

Social networking platforms Facebook, Twitter witness users exchange ideas of resisting harassment to women as protests against the Pahela Baishakh assault continue.

The adminstration’s underplaying and protesters’ accusations on sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration should thoroughly be probed, opines Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique.

Banned in the country for its consequences, gill nets are still aplenty in Bangladesh.

A deltaic country, the plains of Bangladesh are crisscrossed with a million water bodies. The canals, marshlands and the rivers make the quintessential image that Rural Bengal conjures up.

Muntasir Mamun, Professor of History at University of Dhaka, and Hashem Sufi, Researcher of History, tell us the facts behind how Bengali New Year celebration on Pahela Baishakh came to be.

Protest outbursts in the wake of heinous sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration at Dhaka University on 14th April. Liton Nandi, president of leftist student body, Bangladesh Chhatra Union of the university unit was the youth who first apparently came to resist the rowdy mob at TSC area.

Through social media popularly in facebook, people from different walks of lives come down heavily to protest the incidents demanding exemplary punishment of the assaulters.

Thousands of people gathered at Ramna Park and on Dhaka University campus to welcome the Bengali New Year 1422. Authorities concerned chalked out several traditional programmes to celebrate the occasion.

In the wake of mass outrage against sexual assault on women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on Dhaka University campus, the ruling Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League keeps itself aloof from any protest.

People are thronging the boutiques and fashion houses in Dhaka to complete the last-minute shopping spree for celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year.

Poetry in a plate. This Pohela Baishkah do something different, explore your city its heritage, savoring the eccentric and rich variety of food of Old Dhaka and the street food of Dhaka University.

Just keeping away the day-to-day vehicles, riding on traditional horse carts can make your moments more eventful on this very first day of Bangla Calendar.